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The Tudor Housewife

By Alison Sim

News, Gender and Power

By Stuart Allan, Gill Branston (Cardiff University, UK), Cynthia Carter

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day

By ANNE SOMERSET

Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993

By Pauline Adams

Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration

By Ian Duffield, James E. Bradley, James Bradley (Research Fellow, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow)

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

By Susan Brownmiller

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

Women Under Apartheid

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

By Alain Corbin, Alan Sheridan

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Wait for Me!: Memoirs

By Mitford, Deborah

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924

By Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Ophelia Field

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838

By Barbara Bush

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

By Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Kim Barker

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

By Natalie Livingstone

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

By Anand, Anita

Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital

By Moore, Wendy

The Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

By Wolf, Hubert

Red Roses: Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort

By Amy Licence

Eyes in the Night: An Untold Zulu Story

By Mathiane, Nomavenda

Women in Roman Law and Society

By Gardner, Jane F.